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honour_n	daughter_n	marry_v	succeed_v	1,582	5	9.8966	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39821	The manners of the Israelites in three parts. I Of the patriarchs. 2. Of the Israelites after their coming out of Egypt until the captivity of Babylon. 3 Of the Jews after their return from the captivity until the preaching of the Gospel. Shewing their customs secular and religious, their generous contempt of earthly grandeur. And the great benefit and advantage of a plain laborious, frugal, and contented life.; Moeurs des Israélites. English	Fleury, Claude, 1640-1723.	1683 (1683)	Wing F1364A; ESTC R218945	81,805	250

among all the Descendants of Abraham as the Ishmaelites the Medianites and the Idumeans As to the uncircumcised who worshipped the true God they suffer'd them to live in the Holy Land with this Proviso that they observ'd the Law of Nature and Abstinence from Blood But if they Circumcised themselves they were reputed the Children of Abraham and consequently obliged to keep all the Law of Moses These last the Rabies called the Proselytes of Righteousness And the uncircumcised Faithful they call'd the Proselytes of Habitation whom they otherwise termed Noachidians as being only obliged by the Precepts which God deliver'd to Noah at his coming out of the Ark. CAP. XIII Marriages Women AFter that way the Israelites liv'd Marriage was no great trouble to 'em it was rather an ease according to it's Institution Laborious were the Women as well as the men and work't within Doors while their Husbands were imployed in the Field The Women dress'd the meat and served it up to the Table which is seen in Homer and several parts of Scripture When Samuel represented the manners of Kings to the people The Kings said he will take your daughters and make them Confectionaries Cooks and Bakers The Pretext which Amnon the son of David us'd to get his Sister Tamor to his House when he would viciate her was to take broths from her hands which she indeed had prepared her self tho she was the Daughter of a King It was the Women that made cloaths And their ordinary occupation was to weave Stuffs as they work now adays in Linnen and Tapestry In Homer we see the Examples of Penelope Calypso Circe we see the same in Theocritus Terence and in all Authors And what seems to me the more remarkable is that this Custome did still continue at Rome among the greatest Ladies in a very corrupt age Augustus usually wearing Cloaths made by his Sister and his Daughters If we would have proofs hereof out of Scripture 't is said the Mother of Samuel made him a little coat which she brought him on solemn days and we see the virtuous wife of Solomon industriously aplying her Linnen and woollen a turning the wheel and spinning and giving two Suits of Cloaths to all her Domesticks All these works are done privately in the house and do not require any great strength of body Wherefore the Ancients did not fancy them worthy to employ men and very kindly left 'em to women naturally more neat more sedentary and more addicted to Little businesses They lived apart from the men and much retired principally the Widows Judith remained thus shut up with her Women in an high apartment like the Penelope of Homer The Marriages of the Israelites were not accompanied with any Ceremony of Religion that I know of unless it were the Prayers of the Father of the Family and of the assistance for drawing the blessing of God upon the Bride We have examples hereof in the marriages of Rebecca with Isaac of Ruth with Boaz of Sarah with Tobias I do not see they offer'd Sacrifices upon this occasion or went to the Temple or sent for Priests All passed amidst their Friends or Relations nor was it other than a civil contract As for the Circumcision of Children that was in truth an Act of Religion and very necessary when any one was to enter into the allyance of Abraham But it was likewise performed within doors by Relations without the ministry of any publick person In all these Ceremonies take care we must not to let our selves be deceiv'd by modern Pictures as I have already said of Apparel Far from fearing the Multitude of Children the Israelites did hugely desire it Besides their natural Inclination the Law gives great motives to it They knew that God in creating the World and in repairing it after the Deluge had said to mankind Encrease and Multiply and fill the earth They knew that to Abraham he had Promised an innumerable posterity and finally that amidst them was to be born the SAVIOUR of the World And by those sordid Interests they were not press'd which in this age make people look upon the blessing of Marriage as a great misfortune Their frugal way of living was the occasion that as long as their Children were little they cost 'em little to feed and yet less to cloath for in hot Countries they often let 'em go naked And when they were bigger they helped them in their Labour and spared them Slaves and hired Servants Wherefore they had few slaves in proportion Ziba the Servant of Saul cultivated the Patrimony of Mephibosheth with his Fifteen Sons and twenty slaves They were not in pain to provide for their Children since there was no Fortune to be made amongst them and all their ambition was to leave to their Sons the Inheritance they had received from their Progenitors better cultivated if possible and with some Herds more And their Daughters as they did not succeed in defect of Males were accordingly marryed rather for allyance than for estate Thus it was a Conveniency to have many Children as it was an honour too They deem'd that man happy who saw himself Father of a large Family and environed with a great number of Children and Grand-children always ready to receive his Instructions and to execute his orders and they did not fear his name would be Forgotten as long as his Posterity subsisted Thus when the Scripture sets down the number of Children 't is usually for to commend the Fathers as those two Judges of Israel of whom one had thirty sons the other forty with thirty Grand-sons as David of whom it reckons nineteen sons bating those by Concubines as Rehoboham who had twenty eight sons and sixty Daughters and Abijah who had two and twenty Sons and sixteen Daughters Thus did the Poets crack of the fifty Children of Priam for the Greeks had ●ecundity in no less esteem As Virginity was not yet known for a virtue in this State they only considered the mischief of Barrenness and they thought those maids unhappy who dyed without being marryed Electra complains expresly hereof in Sophocles and it was the subject of the Regrets of Jephtha's Daughter Wherefore it was a shame for a marry'd woman to be barren as we see in the mother of Samuel and many others and this misfortune they looked upon as a curse of God This care of Posterity and preserving the memory of the Dead was the foundation of that Law which commands the Brother to marry his Brother's widow in case he dyed without Children This right was established in the time of the Patriarchs as appears by the History of Thamar and they look'd upon it as a pious duty that the name of the deceased might not fall into oblivion So the Children were attributed to him by a kind of adoption From thence come the two Genealogies of JESUS CHRIST according to St. Matthew and